Improvement in hames



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Letters Patent No. 82,168, dated September 15, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAIVIES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that we, ISAAC B. SMITH and HENRY C. Bunn, of Springfield, Windsor county, State ofrVermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IIamcs; and wc do horobydeclare that the following is afull and clear description thereof, referencel being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawings- Figure 1 represents a side view, and

Figure 2 a bottom view of our improvements.

This invention consists of a new and useful arrangement of the staple for connecting the trace as well as the pole-strap ring to the hames.

The construction of this we will now descrlbe. Posts A and B are set into the hames, at the usual position for the attachment of the trace, and these posts are provided with eyes, a a and through the ends of them, the eye Z7 being furnished with screw-threads, for a purpose hereinafter described. It will be perceived that the post B is formed with two projections, C and D, making it a double post, with a space between them, the bottom part being formed solid, and curved at its inner face at ri. Through the eyes of' the posts is placed a. bolt, E, which is provided at one end with a head, F, and at the other with a thread, G, which last engages with the threads in the eye b. lVhcn this post is screwed in, it joins the tops of the posts, and forms a douhlc staple, with a place, H, for the trace-ring or catch, and a smaller place, I, for the polc-strap ring. Washers J and K are arranged so as to t around the bolt between the posts, in order to prevent the chafing and wear of thc metal as the rings of both trace and pole-strap play about.

The advantages of this device are that the main staple for the trace-ring is exempted from the wear and chang ofthe pole-strap ring, and so also is the trace-ring, While the pole-strap ring, by being confined to a staple of its own, and yet in thc same position as would be its place if occupying the main staple, is prevented from wearing the collar or trace either. The bolt allows them to bc taken out and put back with easc and convenience, while the cylindrical washers upon the same prevent a great deal of wear. Besidesthis, the boltarrangement allows the hames to be used for different purposes; for instance, a. hook can be put in the placc used forthc ordinary ring, converting the haines into a hook-hamcs, being in that capacity more applicable to cart-harness.

Now, having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the post A, double post B, and bolt E, arranged and constructed substantially as and for the purpose described.

`2. In combination with the bolt E, the washers J and K, arranged upon it, substantially as set forth.

ISAAC B. SMITH,

HENRY C. BURR. Witnesses:

HENRY CLossoN, HENRY F. GRAIN. 

